102 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



Dr. Landsborougli (lately dead of cholera, at 

 Saltcoats, the scene of his energetic and pious 

 ministry), are very excellent ; and are furnished, 

 too, with well-drawn and colored plates, for the 

 comfort of those to whom a scientific nomencla- 

 ture (as liable as any other human thing to be 

 faulty and obscure) conveys but a vague concep- 

 tion of the objects. These may serve well for 

 the beginner, as introductions to Professor Har- 

 vey's large work on the British Alga;, and to the 

 new edition of Professor Johnston's invaluable 

 -' British Zoophytes." 



For general Zoology the best books for begin- 

 ners are, perhaps, as an introduction to comjiara- 

 tivc anatomy, Professor Rymer Jones's " Animal 

 Kingdom " ; and for systematic Zoology, Mr. 

 Gosse's four little books, on Mammals, Birds, 

 Reptiles, and Fishes, published, with many plates, 

 by the Christian Knowledge Society, at a mar- 

 vellously cheap rate. For microscopic animal- 

 cules, Miss Agnes Catlow's " Drops of Water " 

 will teach the young more than they will ever 

 remember, and serve as a good introduction to 

 those teeming abysses of the unseen world, wliich 

 must be afterwards traversed under the guidance 

 of Ilassall and Ehrenberg. 



